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Hey LP!

I'm planning on going on a poker vacation soon, hopefully live games havent changed much since I last played like a year ago.

Anyway, I'm doing an undergraduate thesis on Video Games, Drugs, Alcohol, Gambling for Psychology and would be awesome if you guys can help me out.

I don't know how many people play league here since it's mostly Dota 2 but as an incentive, I'm raffling off 15 $10 RP gift cards for LoL.

It will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.

If mods think this is inappropriate, please let me know!

Cheers guys,

edit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8M5B7C8

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Had a weird dream where I went to Taco Bell and Barry Greenstein was behind the counter.

Simultaneously, he was beside me ordering two of those crunchy gordido supremes or something. He looked at me and told me that they were the best.

I ordered them. They tasted like shit.

I was so disappointed in Barry Greenstein.

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Hey LP,

I'm a 4NL microstakes player but when I can I take the trip to Niagara Falls for vacation and to play at the 1/2 live games they have there.

This time around, my girlfriend got us free hotel stay for two nights and so we went together with the plans of shopping in buffalo after + eating at McDonald's which in America, they have 20 pcs for $4.99 which is basically unheard of in Canada. This more than anything in the trip blew my mind.

I had always wanted to go across the border to play at Seneca Casino because I heard that drinks are complimentary which is basically unheard of in Canada. This was the second thing that blew my mind. So, with all these dreams of mine and my girlfriend being very supportive of my ambitions, we decided to go to both during our time there.

I had four hands that were kind of interesting to me because I was a little confused with the way I played them. Some I know I butchered irreparably but I would like some input.

We get there pretty late, check into our hotel and eat something small before we go to the 1/2 game at the Niagara casino. We arrive around 2:30am and I sit down alone because my companion doesn't feel like playing anymore and to my dismay, there was only one table going. Sitting down for a short while I realized that it was actually a really good table, a lot of limping, passive, and bad-aggressive type players so I sit down with $260 and looking around I realized it was really deep.

I play tight, raise with KQs with no callers, 3-bet KK no callers and trying to play as solid as possible.

1.

First real hand opens up when two MP players limp in and I get dealt Kc10d in the CO. I raise to 12 and sb/bb and two limpers call. Everyone has me covered and I'm playing ~$260 effective. Four way to the flop.

Flop (~$48)

9d 10s 5d

x to me and I had a plan to bomb the flop if I flop any top pair. So I bet $45.

To my surprise and dismay, all four players call.

Turn (~$228)

Ac

Pretty much the worst card in the deck.

Checks to me again and I have about ~$200 left.

Not really sure what to do here since shoving into 4 players with Kc10d didn't appeal to me that much. Didn't want to check to the river where I give free equity to the players in the pot especially with just a pair of tens.

In hindsight, I think I should have shoved for thin value to get draws to call and maybe (MAYBE) weak aces to fold. Or to check and just give up the pot on the river if anyone bets.

I decided to bet $66 to fold out gut-shot/Q and J high hands that have a bit of equity against me and to charge players for the flush draw. I would never expect a x/raise as a bluff on the turn from these players so being bluffed out wasn't really in the question. Planning to fold if I got raised.

Plus I had position on the river to fold/check back/value bet depending on the river card.

That was my rationale, not really too sure what the best play was.

MP calls, rest folds.

River (~$350)

Jc

MP x's and I quickly x-back. He shrugs, and I show Kc10d to win the pot.

So far so good.

I have an image of a very nitty player from the way that I was willing to fold my small blinds instead of completing.

2.

Tagg-ISH Indian-Guy (~$145) raises from EP iso-ing a EP limper. MP calls, MP+1 calls. and I have AQo in the small blind. I really hate flatting these type of hands OOP and I considered folding but I thought that 3-bet was okay as well. I had the intention of calling his shove. My logic is iffy on this aspect, refer to QQ hand below. I raise to $56, EP limper folds, and EP raiser snap shoves ~$120 and gets folds to me.

My rationale: If I'm going to raise him I'm going to call getting like 1/3 pot odds.

I call, we both table AQo

I left with ~$375 profit after ~2 hours or so which was nice over all.







So, next day we decided to check out Seneca Casino.

As soon as I sat down, I noticed that the American players were really aggressive compared to the Canadian ones. There was hardly a pot where someone was limping, and even less so that they weren't being isolated. It took me a while to notice the tendencies of the players.

3.

I already know I butchered this one. I'm dealt QQ in the sb. LAG older gentleman raises limper to $15, two callers to me in the sb.

So I decide to flat.

My reasons were because QQ is strong enough to slow play pf, pot control OOP and to get his weaker range to bet into me post-flop.

In hindsight to me, this is a 93% definitive raise. Our effective stack sizes were about ~$250, deep enough so that they would never fold a raise. Therefore I can value-raise and the weakest part of their ranges would still call. Also, 3-bet for initiative, it's easier to bet for value than to x/call or x/r a c-bet to get value.

4 to flop

Flop (~60)

Qd 6h 6d

I check; LAG will c-bet every dry flop. I feel like donking was a bit worse than checking. it x's to raiser who bets $35.

I call. Rationale, my equity lock on this hand is pretty stable (little chance to get sucked out) and I wanted the players behind me to call as well.

In hindsight, raising here is okay; it doesn't look very credible. The flop is dry and the only real hand I could have is 76s/A6s but with the image I had, that might be out of my range and therefore raising looks bluffy and therefore, I can value-raise.

Players behind me fold

Turn (~$110)

2c

I check; I don't want to fold out his bluffs.

In hindsight, This is where I should have donked. He is not going to continue at all with his air-c-betting range on this turn and all his hands with SD Value is going to check back. All of his range except AQ/AA/KK will check this turn and I felt like I should have bet for value to charge all his mid-PP's and FDs.

He checks back.

River (~$110)

2d

So the board is Q6622.

I lead for $71. I guess this is okay. The flush hit but I didn't really expect to get called so I was surprised when he did.

I showed, and he mucked.

I was up around ~$300 profit, with a total of around ~$500 in my stack until this hand happened, and even though I feel pretty good about it not sure if it's THAT good or not.

4.

So, I get dealt 10h8h.

MP limps around to me in the bb who checks.

Six way to flop of

Flop ($12)

Qd 10c 8d

I lead $15. For value, it's really drawy and my equity is not so good against six players. Four callers, Effective stack sizes was ~$200.

Turn (~$72)

5h

sb checks, I bet $62 still for value. If I bet on flop for value, turn bet is for value.
In hindsight, I still think betting is better than checking. It is still drawy and my equity still isn't so good. Folds to sb who shoves for ~$144.

My only read with sb is that he plays a lot of hands aggressively and I saw only one hand where he shoved a brick river (~$65 into a $100) as a bluff because once the guy called, he insta-mucked and rebought.

I was pretty glad when he shoved, thinking in my mind to snap-call him and not really thinking about his range so that was a pretty big mistake on my part. I thought he could have KQ/QJ even 84/Q4/Q10 but mostly because it was $92 for me to call to win ~$250 and I had two purrr.

So, I called. He had the nut-straight, and I bricked out.

Not exactly sure how I should of went about the situation. Could I have found a fold to his shove? Against this player? I think MAYBE, but calling should be better.

I still left Seneca with $100 profit AND like 15 free rum and cokes which was nice. I did tip the waitress (obv) but overall I had an amazing time.

And dem $4.99 nuggets were crispy as hell.

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